Example sentences of "[be] [adj] but have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been apprehensive but had gone along with her idea all the same and now the small room was a regular haunt of the local foremen and managers , as well as a meeting-place for the trade union officials who held impromptu meetings over mugs of steaming hot tea and bacon sandwiches . |
| 2 | Staff turnover had traditionally been high but has slowed down more recently . |
| 3 | They 're lovely but have got horrible faces . |
| 4 | Boase explained that for twenty years he had made a collection of notes relating to English persons deceased since 1850 , and that in compiling his work he had kept in mind the dictum of James Anthony Froude [ q.v. ] , ‘ we want the biographies of common people ’ , so that many hundreds of the thousands of entries included in his compilation related to persons who had not been eminent but had led interesting lives , accounts of which could not be found in any other book . |
| 5 | The design is unique but has influenced many smaller churches . |
| 6 | The town itself is uneventful but has spawned its own genuine tourist activities . |
| 7 | They said it had been captive but had escaped . ’ |
| 8 | The snow was blinding but had blown so hard that it had not yet formed a blanket on the land . |
| 9 | Once his parents were able to reassure him that his mummy had been very ill for a while but now she was better but had to take medicine he became a much easier boy to handle and stopped urinating on the carpet . |
| 10 | I was hungry but had to wait while he fiddled with a saucepan and then made me endure the smell of the meat coming from it . |
| 11 | Jilly Jonathan was pale but had calmed down after the bout of hysterical weeping that had overcome her once they had got her to the hotel . |
| 12 | I was terrified but had to go over . |